Modern Era · North America · Culture
1947
Roswell incident and UFO craze
1947
A rancher in New Mexico found strange wreckage on his property. The Army Air Force first called it a flying disc, then said it was a weather balloon. Newspapers had already run with it. For the rest of the century the word Roswell would stand for the belief that something extraterrestrial had been recovered and covered up.
In context
Also in 1947 (7 other events on record)
- India and Pakistan gain independence · South Asia · Politics
- Transistor invented at Bell Labs · North America · Technology
- Indian Independence and Partition · South Asia · Politics
- Truman Doctrine declares Cold War · North America · Politics
- Marshall Plan announced · North America · Politics
- Dead Sea Scrolls discovered · Middle East · Religion
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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